Presents evidence to prove that Italian engineering schools must satisfy more rapidly in the near future the growing demands of the production world and that this must be done with strong support from industries. Although the main concern is with Italy, several observations are valid for Europe as a whole. (Author/JN)

Examines the relationship between higher education, industry, and professions by providing (1) a historical viewpoint; (2) a typology and a criticism of various kinds of cooperation; (3) a definition of new concepts for cooperation; and (4) some concrete proposals for improving the partnership. (JN)

Links between engineering education and research carried out in universities and industry in Sweden are close. This is accomplished by a framework of representation from industry, society, and professional organizations in the planning and management of engineering education as well as by a direct cooperation in actual course work. (Author/JN)

Describes the catalytic role that Ireland's National Board for Science and Technology plays in promoting and fostering university-industry links as well as several ongoing higher education-industry cooperative ventures. Also examines the motivating factors that affect higher education-university interactions and the disincentives that limit…

The article briefly describes programs that link school and college education for gifted students and notes efforts to offer college work to gifted high school students as well as efforts to train high school teachers to teach advanced courses. (Author/CL)

Proposes establishing a central office as the focus for generating university cooperation in Europe, particularly in continuing engineering education. Also suggests that this office could become the nucleus for more general cooperation between European universities, especially in contributions they make to the research and development needs of…

The Comprehensive Interagency Diagnostic and Prescriptive Center of Richmond, Virginia, offers troubled youth a chance to have their problems evaluated and treated through a cooperative pooling of staff and resources from five agencies. (MD)

The article describes a cooperative program of special education teacher preparation to recruit black students into an established master of education program and prepare them for careers in special education. (Author/CL)

Four suggested basic principles that universities and industries may consider when developing cooperative agreements that will reduce conflicts of interest are: relevance, loyalty, fairness, and trust. These may be used for the development of new, cooperative ventures to support university research. (Author/MLW)

In this review of American public health the author recalls 200 years of public health progress, details the major thrusts of the Foreward Plan, proposes a preventive health system to solve environmental health problems and calls for closer cooperation between local and federal governments to better solve today's health problems. (BT)

This paper reports on a study examining whether it makes a difference how a university-school partnership is structured and how the partners perceive their level of involvement. Partnership structure frameworks grade from cooperation (least structured) to coordination (more structured) to collaboration (most structured). Twelve schools…

The PictureAustralia service is a collaboration between cultural agencies to bring their digital pictorial collections together at the one web site, hosted by the National Library of Australia. It was developed through the identification of a need for a national image discovery service. The key to the service is its cross-sectoral nature,…

Author feels that independent Catholic schools have been slow to cooperate with their neighbors, and that a breakthrough toward total cooperation has occured in the Consortium described here. (GB)

Steps in the establishment of a Cooperative Office Education (COE) Program were: a community survey; detailed planning with the use of informative handbooks; formation of a Business, Industry, and Education Committee; initial student selection; identification of participating employers; publicity; and formation of an Advisory Council. (SC)